Our Lady of the Snows prides itself in improving our world by addressing social justice issues.  One of those issues is to improve the plight of the poor and specifically of the hungry. 

This February 25^th, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season, you and your child will be given an opportunity to lessen world hunger.  On Ash Wednesday, a special lunch of rice will be offered in our lunch room for $2.  Discuss this special event with your child.  Stress the importance of giving without that giving becoming mandatory.  Could your child cover the cost of the $2 lunch him/herself?

It’s not fun to eat only rice.  Perhaps that is why it is called a sacrifice … giving.  Many children in the U.S.A. and throughout the world would be thrilled to have even one bowl of rice a day.  Eating rice for one meal seems a small sacrifice in light of the fact that more than 17.8% of children in the U.S. alone live in poverty.  Poverty the world over is the core of the hunger crisis.

Rice for our Ash Wednesday bowls will be donated.  All profits will go toward world hunger as the school will purchase animals – goats, chickens, etc. – through the Food for the Poor program.  This program enables people to help themselves and their families by empowering them with the ability to produce their own food.  Perhaps the greater gift, then, is the return of their dignity as human beings. 

Thank you for helping the students of Our Lady of the Snows school foster a sense of duty toward social justice issues.

www.foodforthepoor.org